Health experts enhance their knowledge of media health literacy to tackle misinformation and rumours about health
- فارسي، فارسي
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Health experts from the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) enhanced their knowledge and exchanged views on media health literacy to tackle misinformation and disinformation in different health-related areas.
In a series of two training of trainers (ToT) workshops held in Tehran in the first week of May co-organized by the Office of Health Education and Promotion of MOHME and UNICEF, 80 health education and health promotion experts from MOHME working at national and provincial levels, improved their knowledge on the relevant components of media health literacy. The trainings were based on curricula specifically developed by MOHME with UNICEF support for this purpose. Participants in this three-day ToT engaged in fruitful discussions on media health literacy and reviewed lessons learned in the past years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as charted the way forward.
The training aimed to help health practitioners differentiate misinformation and disinformation against proven facts on health-related information in the media and learn how to react appropriately to incorrect information. The workshop opened officially with remarks by Dr. Farshid Rezaee, Head of Education and Health Promotion Office of MOHME. The facilitators of this workshop included top national lecturers from different partner organisations, namely the Iranian Audio-Visual Regulatory Authority (SATRA), the Iranian Cyber Space Police (FATA), Parliament News Department, Tehran University and Iran’s Media Literacy Organization.
In the next step, the trained health practitioners will hold provincial workshops on media health literacy across the country for MOHME's health volunteers and ambassadors.
Learning how to deal with misinformation and disinformation in health-related areas enhances the media health literacy of the society and contributes to improved accessibility of reliable healthcare information for the public, especially the families, mothers and the children.
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